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Type: Article
Published: 2015-02-20
Page range: 281–290
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A new species of Deutonura (Collembola: Neanuridae: Neanurinae) from north-eastern Algeria, and characterisation of two intraspecific lineages by their barcodes

Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbone Universités, 55 rue Cuvier, CP50, F-75005 Paris, France.
Laboratoire de Biosystématique et Ecologie des Arthropodes, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université Constantine 1, Route de Ain El-Bey, 25000 Constantine, Algeria.
Laboratoire de Biosystématique et Ecologie des Arthropodes, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université Constantine 1, Route de Ain El-Bey, 25000 Constantine, Algeria.
Laboratoire ECODIV, Université de Rouen, Bâtiment IRESE A, Place Emile Blondel, 76821 Mont Saint Aignan Cedex, France.
Deutonura zana sp. nov. taxonomy muscular insertion areas pseudopores infra-specific divergence geographic differentiation

Abstract

A new species of Deutonura, D. zana sp. nov., is described from north-eastern Algeria. It is morphologically similar in most characters to D. deficiens meridionalis and to D. luberonensis, both members of the D. phlegraea group, differing from the former by the absence of chaeta O on head, and from the later by the separation of tubercles Di and De on Th. I. The muscular insertion pattern of the new species is figured, and suggested as a potential new character for the taxonomy of Neanurinae. Deutonura zana sp. nov. is well characterised by its barcode sequence. Within the new species as morphologically defined, two groups of COI haplotypes, in individuals indistinguishable morphologically, are reported from two distinct mountain ranges. The need of a morphological assessment of demes diverging at significant infra-specific level in their barcodes is stressed.